Monday, November 19, 2007, 11:15 a.m.
Leo A. Guthart Cultural Center Theater, Joan and Donald E. Axinn Library, First Floor
South Campus

Equally celebrated as a novelist and non-fiction writer, Edmund White, was born in 1940 in Cincinnati and has written and edited more than 20 books, including the novels Forgetting Elena, Nocturnes for the King of Naples and Caracole. He also wrote a series of autobiographical works, including A Boy’s Own Story, The Beautiful Room Is Empty and The Farewell Symphony, capped by the engaging confessional My Lives.

Mr. White’s biography of Jean Genet won the National Book Critics Circle in 1994. He has written extensively about Paris, travel and gay culture. Winner of a Guggenheim fellowship and the recipient of a Chevalier of the Arts from France, Edmund White is the quintessence of a cosmopolitan person of letters in our time.